Syndicate: EMAF Osnabrueck 1997: Lectures on netfilm, netcriticism, netprojects

[idensen@cl.uni-hildesheim.de (Heiko Idensen) (by way of Pit Schultz <pit@contrib.de>)]

EUROPEAN MEDIA ART FESTIVAL 7-11 MAY 1997 OSNABRâ? CK
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                Lectures

                       The lectures, seminars and workshops of the
                      festival are going to take place at the Forum of
                      the Art Gallery Dominican Church

                      Thu, 2 p.m., Forum
                              Heiko Idensen and Olia Lialiana, Netfilm
                              Net/Work/Narratives
                              Inter-disciplinary and co-operative art forms
                              in the Net represent the most interesting
                              developments in the Internet. In the second
                              part. Olia Lialiana will introduce her work
                              with a lecture and presentation on "A.K. goes
                              to Paradise". Her theory purports to show
                              that "Net language is closer to Film than
                              Video". The artist is also represented in the
                              festival programme with her Internet project
                              "My Boyfriend came back from the War".

                      Thu, 4 p.m., Forum
                              Irwin: Neue Slowenische Kunst - State in Time
                              Marina Grzinic will present the work from the
                              fine art group IRWIN, Ljubljana, Slovenia and
                              it's project Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) -
                              State in Time.
                              Since the 1990's one of the most
                              attention-drawing projects of the Neue
                              Slowenische Kunst (NSK) movement, which
                              consists of the music group LAIBACH, a
                              theater group and the group IRWIN; ist the
                              project NSK - State in Time. It was in the
                              context of a paradigm of this kind that the
                              NSK Embassies were realised.

                      Fri, 1 p.m., Forum
                              Net Criticism
                              The subject of Net Criticism represents a
                              thematic focal point in the EMAF seminares in
                              1997. After the Internet euphoria of last
                              year, a critical stock-take concerning
                              projects, developments and artistic
                              perspectives is needed.
                              Concepts and the relationship to other media
                              forms, such as film and video, will be
                              analysed from a variety of view points and
                              complemented via considerations of a societal
                              and philosophical nature.
                              1 p.m.
                                   From Speculative Media Theory to Net
                                   Criticism
                                   Lecture and discussion from and with
                                   Geert Lovink.
                              2 p.m.
                                   From Couch Potato to Screen Potato?
                                   Lecture and discussion from and with
                                   Herbert A. Meyer
                              Coffee Break
                              3.30 p.m.
                                   Notes from a Virtual Butterfly
                                   Lecture and discussion from and with
                                   Merel Mirage
                                   This is a personal experience between
                                   the experience of the body and the
                                   experience of the mind interacting with
                                   VR. This led the artist to her latest
                                   work: subject: emotions encoded, a
                                   docudrama in Cyberspace in which two
                                   strangers meet and start an affair.
                                   Through the work she analyses how to
                                   deal with real emotions, born and
                                   developed in Cyberspace. But where have
                                   the feelings gone?
                                   "Am I a man who dreamt of being a
                                   butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming
                                   myself a man?"
                                   Chuangtse, Taoist philosopher

                      Fri, 5 p.m., Forum
                              Danny Yung, Towards 1997, Hong Kong
                              A Global View of Arts in Hong Kong.
                              Lecture and presentation by Danny Yung,
                              Artistic Director of the arts Center of the
                              Hong Kong University of Science and
                              Technology.

                      Sat, 1 p.m., Forum
                              Go on then, Push!
                              Discursive economic considerations from the
                              Frankfurt Internet theorist Dr. Hartmut
                              Winkler on Current developments in the
                              Internet.

                      Sat, 3 p.m., Forum
                              Non-Locations
                              Non-Locations - Fields of Activity in Urban
                              and Digital Experiential Space is the title
                              of a presentation to be given by Knowbotic
                              Research, Cologne.

                      Sat, 5 p.m., Forum
                              Games & Comics
                              Games and Comics, High End Games. Machiko
                              Kusahara (Tokyo) will present the most recent
                              productions from Japan where theever
                              continuing link between computer games and
                              the entertainment industry will be
                              demonstrated using Japan's very popular
                              comicculture as an example.

                      Sat, 7 p.m., Forum
                              Artwarpeace Sculptureplan, End Time
                              Transmission for Lucerne
                              Presentation of a subversive-ironical Net-
                              and Project-architecture by M. Falkenstein,
                              K.D. Michel, F. Riepe.

                      Sun, 1 p.m., Forum
                              New Agora
                              An artistic project in the Internet from the
                              Universities of Kassel, GÅ¡teborg and Helsinki
                              researching the potential in the Web for
                              joint project developments.

                      Sun, 2 p.m., Forum
                              Carvien Shiu, F-Port
                              An abstract interacitve internet art-space
                              within the virtual portus of Hong Kong.

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